{"id":1951,"date":"2012-05-08T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-08T12:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2012-05-08T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T12:08:09","slug":"paul-ryan-challenged-by-town-hall-constituents-over-previous-praise-of-ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/05\/paul-ryan-challenged-by-town-hall-constituents-over-previous-praise-of-ayn-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ryan Challenged By Town Hall Constituents Over Previous Praise Of Ayn Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) disavowed his one-time political muse, Ayn Rand, because of her \u201catheist philosophy.\u201d Some of his constituents, however, aren\u2019t buying it.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan praised Rand\u2019s ideas at length during a 2005 gathering in her honor and declared that \u201cthe reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand.\u201d But in an April interview with National Review, Ryan took a far different tone, telling Bob Costa, \u201cI reject her philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a town hall meeting on Friday, Ryan was pressed by a constituent to explain this about-face.<span style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mhIJnVvfnJk?feature=player_embedded\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"260\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SOURCE:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/election\/2012\/05\/07\/479298\/ayn-rand-paul-ryan\/\">Paul Ryan Challenged By Town Hall Constituents Over Previous Praise Of Ayn Rand | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) disavowed his one-time political muse, Ayn Rand, because of her \u201catheist philosophy.\u201d Some of his constituents, however, aren\u2019t buying it. Ryan praised Rand\u2019s ideas at length during a 2005 gathering in her honor and declared that \u201cthe reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,22],"tags":[1146,855,808],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}